FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The word “Computer” was first assigned to ____
A
A person who conducts calculations
B
A person who is very loud
C
A person who doesn’t sleep
D
A person who lies
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. But more interestingly in this book the word computer was not used for machines, but instead, it was used for Human-Computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word “computer” was first used in 1613 in the book The Yong Mans Gleanings by Richard Braithwaite and originally described a human who performed calculations or computations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oxford English Dictionary lists the first known use of the word ‘computer’ as being in 1613, used by English writer Richard Braithwaite: “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.”

Detailed explanation-4: -The term ‘ computer’ is derived from Latin language. Meaning of the word “Computer” Computer is derived from a Latin word “computare” which means to “to calculate”, “to count”, “to sum up” or “to think together”. So, more precisely the word computer mean s a “device that performs computation".

Detailed explanation-5: -The word computer is derived from the Latin word ‘computare’, which means ‘to calculate’, ‘to count’, ‘to think’, or ‘to sum up’.

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